I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.
The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
I try to picture my books being acted out.